Plan Ahead: Angela Rayner
Marks and Spencer chairman Archie Norman has become the latest boss to sound the alarm over Labour’s plans to reform workers’ rights.
Policies led by the party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner would give staff day-one rights in new jobs, as well as a crackdown on zero-hours contracts.
“Any incoming government should carefully consider whether a package that reduces flexibility, makes it more expensive to hire people and seeks to bring unions back into the workplace will help attract new investment,” Norman told the Sunday Telegraph.
The M&S chairman joins a chorus of business leaders urging Labor to reconsider if Sir Keir Starmer wins the general election.
Norman, a former Conservative MP, said the UK has “some of the best employers, conditions and practices in the world”.
Responding to the comments, shadow business spokesman Jonathan Reynolds said: ‘Labour is a proudly pro-business, pro-worker party.
‘[Business leaders] “They want the political security they need to make long-term investments.”